Lulu

Lulu Kennedy-Cairns (4 November 1948-) was a Scottish singer-songwriter, actress, television personality, and businesswoman. Born  Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie in Lennoxtown, Stirlingshire, Scotland in 1948, she scored her first hit at the age of 16 with her cover of the Isley Brothers' "Shout" in 1964. She later had an international hit with "To Sir with Love" in 1967, won the Eurovision Song Contest 1969 with her song "Boom Bang-a-Bang", and performed the title song to the 1974 film The Man with the Golden Gun. In 1979, 1983, and 1987, she supported Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Party, but she celebrated the liberal Barack Obama's election as President of the United States in 2008.